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ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Council for African Women is founded at the All African Convention with Charlotte Maxeke as president. This … Cape Town ANC Women's League. Albertina Sisulu…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… conference of the ANC. The ANC national executive and the Convention of Bantu Chiefs, held under the auspices of the … people to reject the bills. He…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… my Wife (1961), Ezekiel Mphahlele 's Down Second Avenue (1959) and William 'Bloke' Modisane's Blame Me on History … to change direction - with the banning of…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… People's Organisation, convene for the Defend Free Speech convention in Johannesburg. May , The left-wing newspaper … Defiance Campaign accused are charged…
ArticleList of parties 2009 Elections
… Front Azanian People's Organisation African People's Convention National Alliance Federation of Democrats National Democratic Convention New National Party …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… by a black individual or a black community. On 7 December 1959, leaders of the ANC, SAIC and LPSA issued a joint appeal … closer relationship between the Pan…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… introduced to the politics of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) . The student population was actively involved in PAC politics. Thami Mazwai and Joe Tlholoe …
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… Union De la Rey was one of the delegates to the National Convention. After Union, he was a nominated Government …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… start of the Pan Africanist Congress' Anti Pass campaign. PAC Campaign will be test Contact 19 March 1960 Under the … The decision lies with the P.A.C…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… that year. However, the history of the DP goes back to 1959 when a number of liberal members of the United Party … policy on February 2 1990. With the…
Event90-Days Act commences
… Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both banned organisations. It also allows people … This specific clause in the law becomes…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… December 1958 and then attended Hewat Training College. In 1959, while at Hewat, Frank van der Horst recruited him to … rather than victims. The state had…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… of South Africa. March 19, The Pan-African Congress (PAC) announces, that it will embark on a campaign against the … members of the Pan Africanist Congress,…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… groups to enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms". 1959 17 November, GeneralAssembly of the United Nations … des Nations, Geneva. 1973 30 November,…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… in the National Union of South African Students, Sobukwe, Mandela, Pallo Jordan) maintain he was also … into the nationally-political Black People’s…
EventThe PAC is formed
… An Africanist group led by Robert Sobukwe and Potlako Leballo were frustrated by the … change and broke away to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) the first causalities in an era of banishment. Forced … organisations had to consider new…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… settler population. This was played out in the National convention of 1908 National Convention 1908 The most important reason for the National convention of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… he founded the Islamic Mirror [and became its editor in 1959], a publication that covered various aspects of Islamic … the notorious Group Areas Act. At…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for blacks … were made and in April 1960 the ANC and…
Event90-Days Act comences
… Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) , both banned organisations. It also allows people … This specific clause in the law becomes…
ArchiveThe man SA fears
… Robben Island maximiim security prison of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. …
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… political framework for the unification a National Convention, chaired by the Chief Justice of the Cape, Sir … state. In February 1909 the members of the…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… the trauma of incarceration, on February 4 1959 Winnie gave birth to a daughter she named Zenani. On … murdered sixty-nine people during a Pan African…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… the ANC, it also wholeheartedly supported the All African Convention, the Indian Congress and the Coloured African … Bernstein and Brian Bunting. A banned…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly. However, the demand … This constitution was drafted in an…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response … opens their case in the Treason Trial…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… and Union Constitution. This was the South African Native Convention (SANC). A nine man delegation was sent to England. The Convention is considered a…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… Austria. 1935 December, Moroka attends the All African Convention held in Bloemfontein and is elected as the … NRC. 26 March, Moroka presides over the Defend…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… Party who had to do a job, to carry through a mission". By 1959 he had joined the PAC and now re-asserted his support for a 'black republic', … one important…